Monday, April 14, 2008

Thing 17. ELM Productivity Tools

I use ELM almost every day in my work as a corporate librarian. It's a valued resource I recommend internally and to friends and family. However, I was not aware of all the productivity tools available through ELM until now.

Here's my sample web page I created with EBSCO's page composer. A little clunky but it works to create a simple page of search results. I suppose with more time I could make it prettier.

Creating a web page with results from ProQuest is quick and easy! I liked it better than the EBSCO page composer.

NetLibrary is handy, but in my experience a lot of people don't want to read online. Maybe they think it will be difficult to access? If you're just looking for a quick bit of info or fact check it works great, but not so much for in-depth reading. We're looking at a similar e-book product for our library and aren't sure of the response we're going to get. It seems like a perfect solution, but there is just such a huge difference between paper and an e-book.

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